The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Katia's maximum sustained winds have dropped to 75 miles per hour (120 kph) as it hits land north of Tecolutla, in Veracruz state. The NHC said Irma would continue to bring life-threatening wind , storm surge and rainfall hazards to the to the northern coast of Haiti through Saturday.

It has no embassy in the country however. According to a recent study by the Nautilus Institute think-tank, a massive cutback in the flow of oil from China would definitely hurt the North Korean economy, and especially average citizens. The resolution is created to accomplish six major goals: cap North Korea's oil imports, ban textile exports, end additional overseas laborer contracts, suppress smuggling efforts, stop joint ventures with other nations and sanction designated North Korean ...

The storm made landfall in the Florida Keys this morning, knocking out power and causing severe flooding . As of Monday morning, almost 60 percent of the entire state - close to 6 million customers - had lost electricity. At least 35 people were reported killed earlier when Irma devastated several Caribbean islands. More than 200,000 people waited in shelters across Florida .

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Cooper added that statewide preparedness was "crucial", and said emergency management teams were continuing to take the "large and powerful storm seriously". Georgia has opened all its state parks to serve as shelters for evacuees and officials are coordinating with the Red Cross and other agencies to place as many people as possible.

Images from live air traffic website flightradar24 help illustrate the incredible feat pulled off by everyone associated with Delta flights 431 and 302 on a day when other airlines couldn't land due to strong winds or turned back before reaching Puerto Rico .

The county is also asking people to not clog the highway in Florida City, where Route 1 crosses from the mainland into the Keys. Downed trees littered Interstate 90, and emergency crews were seeking to restore road conditions. This state has never seen a storm surge like this. Gov. Rick Scott flew over the Keys and says he saw a lot of flood damage and boats that had washed ashore.

The resolution, passed after Washington toned down its original proposals to secure backing from China and Russian Federation, came just one month after the council banned exports of coal, lead and seafood in response to North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Category 1 is the NHC's weakest hurricane designation while Category 5 is the strongest. Hurricane Katia intensified to Category 2 on Friday as it move west-southwest across the Gulf of Mexico . Tropical Storm watches are in place for Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis. Rising sea levels also lead to greater and greater surges after a storm.

They have proposed a freeze-for-freeze that would halt North Korean nuclear and missile tests in exchange for the US and South Korea stopping their joint military exercises - but the Trump administration has rejected that. China's United Nations ambassador, Liu Jieyi, said Beijing has been making "unremitting efforts" to denuclearize and maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.

The US put forward another draft resolution Monday that made considerable changes to a previous version of the proposal. "The world will witness how the DPRK tames the U.S. USA disarmament ambassador Robert Wood took the floor to say that the Security Council resolution "frankly sent a very clear and unambiguous message to the regime that the global community is exhausted, is no longer willing to put up provocative behaviour from this regime".

Erdogan also said that, as far as he was aware, the first down payment had been transferred to Moscow. Turkey has signed a contract with Russian Federation to buy S-400 air defense missile systems, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.

Tropical Storm Irma weakened as it moved inland across southwestern Georgia on Monday, but was still capable of severe wind damage and flooding. Jacksonville , the largest city geographically in the country, is grappling with a record storm surge and vast flooding.

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PSG warmed up for their Champions League clash with Celtic on Wednesday with an avalanche of goals against a valiant home team who cracked after left back Benoit Assou-Ekotto was sent off. "It is always special to play my old team ", Kante said. "He raises his foot, I accept that, he catches the keeper, I accept that as well". Pep Guardiola hailed Ederson's bravery after a nasty collision involving the goalkeeper provided the major talking point of Manchester City's 5-0 ...

Over in Florida's neighboring Peach State, power outages surpassed half a million. The risky storm surge "will rush in and could kill you". "If Tampa stays on the east side of the eye, we expect the storm surge to be worse than if the eye moves inland and the west side of the storm hits it", he said.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) says estimates suggest Pyongyang imports about 10 000 barrels of crude oil a day, nearly all of it from China. However, these proposals were dropped later. The resolution fell short of measures sought by the Trump administration and opposed by Russian Federation and China to ban all oil imports, instead capping Pyongyang's imports of crude oil at the level of the last 12 months and limiting the imports of refined petroleum products to 2 million ...

Moore was blinded by a rubber bullet after being shot by a British soldier in Derry as a boy of 10 in 1972. Lauding Moore for his enormous power of compassion, the Dalai Lama said: "I usually describe you as my hero". "Whether or not we like each other we have to live side by side so use common sense and use our intelligence and not anger and violence". "As a fellow Buddhist and Nobel laureate I am appealing to you and your colleagues once more to find a lasting and humane solution to this ...

Arenado finished with two hits and four RBI, giving him 123 on the season. "He didn't stop talking the whole game ... and that was a pretty long game. Freeland stayed on his feet and was led off the field after a visit from a trainer. Anderson, who had knee surgery over the summer, was activated from the 60-day disabled list Sunday.

University officials from IN and Florida International decided late Monday evening to cancel Saturday's football game IN Bloomington due to the impact of Hurricane Irma. Late Monday night, after considering "significant logistical hurdles" with travel and the fact that several players and their families are from places in Florida affected by the hurricane, the decision was made to cancel the game.

A Florida man says that his Facebook event inviting people to shoot at Hurricane Irma was a joke that got out of hand and that he never expected anyone to take his suggestion seriously. "It has become something a little out of my control", the Independent quoted him as saying. The sheriff in Pasco County, Florida warned residents about the dangers of shooting guns into Hurricane Irma after a Facebook event advocating such picked up steam over the weekend.

Cruise ports around the state were also closed. "This is a life-threatening situation", Governor Rick Scott told a press conference. Water flooded into homes and businesses in downtown Miami as the city was ravaged by a storm surge , with water waist-deep in some streets and the city's financial district inundated.